Under a Turkish flag and a picture of Ataturk

Tue, 26/08/2008 - 17:06 — Admin

A student at a private school writes on a blackboard under a Turkish flag and a picture of modern Turkey's founder Ataturk January 8, 2003 in Diyarbakir, the capital of Kurdish areas of Turkey. Diyarbakir and the rest of southeastern Turkey are almost exclusively Kurdish, though schools teach only Turkish history and in the Turkish language by law, long a sore point among the country's millions of Kurds. Meanwhile, the number of Turkish troops deployed across the nearby border in northern Iraq has been doubled to around 12,000 in recent weeks, as Turkey positions itself to make sure that there is no Kurdish uprising in case of war. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)